{"id":9732,"date":"2026-09-18T15:55:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isokovibe.com.ng\/blog\/?p=9732"},"modified":"2026-09-18T15:55:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:55:51","slug":"poco-lees-uk-legal-battle-gets-a-new-trial-date-heres-what-his-team-is-saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isokovibe.com.ng\/blog\/poco-lees-uk-legal-battle-gets-a-new-trial-date-heres-what-his-team-is-saying\/","title":{"rendered":"Poco Lee’s UK Legal Battle Gets A New Trial Date, Here’s What His Team Is Saying"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Poco Lee’s management thanks Zlatan, Burna Boy, and Rahman Jago for their support amid his UK legal battle, as his case moves closer to trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You know that feeling when someone’s been quiet for a while, and then they finally say something, and it hits different? That’s kind of what just happened with Poco Lee’s camp.
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His management came out on Wednesday to publicly thank Zlatan Ibile, along with a few others, for standing by the dancer during his ongoing legal wahala in the UK. And honestly, this is the first time they’ve named names in such a direct way.
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Poco Lee, real name Iweh Pascal Odinaka, has been dealing with serious criminal charges in the UK since August. He’s facing five counts in total, two counts of rape, one attempted rape, and two counts of assault by penetration. Heavy stuff, and it’s been the talk of the town for weeks.
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In their new statement, his team didn’t go into details about what exactly Zlatan did behind the scenes. They just said his involvement has been vital, and asked people to stop spreading negative narratives about the whole situation. In their words, “we kindly request that everyone refrain from spreading negative narratives.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This isn’t even the first shoutout. Earlier, in a video where Poco Lee spoke about his experience, he had already thanked Burna Boy and Rahman Jago for holding him down during what he called a difficult period. So this new statement basically adds Zlatan to that circle of support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poco Lee was granted bail in September after spending weeks in custody, and there’s been a lot of noise online since then, some people claiming he’s been released, others saying the complainant withdrew the case entirely. But according to his management, the UK legal process is still very much active.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s actually confirmed is this: his plea hearing has been set for February 8, 2027, and the trial itself is expected to start on March 8, 2027. So there’s still a long road ahead before anything is decided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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His team has also been pushing back on unverified claims, including drink-spiking rumours that they say were never part of the actual charges. Their message throughout has stayed the same, let the courts do their work, and don’t treat allegations as if they’re already a verdict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For now, it looks like Poco Lee is leaning on a small circle of big names to get him through this. Whether that quiets the online chatter is another story entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Poco Lee’s management thanks Zlatan, Burna Boy, and Rahman Jago for their support amid his UK legal battle, as his case moves closer to trial. You know that feeling when someone’s been quiet for a while, and then they finally say something, and it hits different? That’s kind of what just happened with Poco Lee’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[429],"class_list":["post-9732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trends","tag-poco-lee"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/isokovibe.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/images281529-2.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/isokovibe.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/isokovibe.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/isokovibe.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isokovibe.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isokovibe.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/isokovibe.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9747,"href":"https:\/\/isokovibe.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9732\/revisions\/9747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isokovibe.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/isokovibe.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isokovibe.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isokovibe.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}